For a while it verged on brilliant.

Rating: 7/10 (9 November 2002)

Maybe spoilers.
For just over the first half of this film, it was on course to be one of the best I've ever seen. The script & idea were awesome and it was one where your mind could wander off and you could place your self in the lead role which is the sign of any good film.
Unfortunately, the the plot moved onto the army scenes, the film degenerated into a bit of a farce. In all the post apocalyptic films & TV shows I've seen, it seems there's an unwritten rule that nobody can get on with each other after wards & consequently you end up with more deaths than the cause of the apocalypse. Quite why every member of the army had to be killed off I'm not sure.
The acting wont win any awards but I don't let the acting quality affect my view of a film like other seems to. With so much crap soap operas on tele in England, you get immune to acting like that so it's not a problem. The acting here was competent, nothing more, but not enough to ruin a film.
The film could've carried on an extra 10 minutes to let you know who was flying the plane, where they come from where they were going etc etc.
The idea of post apocalyptic films is the most exciting there is as there is no right or wrong to it, but as of yet I've still yet to see one where the characters resemble how you or I would behave in that situation, and this, to a degree was similar. Nobody seemed to ask the questions any rational people would. For the lead girl character, who had much of the film, you knew very little about her.
In short, it starts brilliantly, tails off badly in the second half, picks itself up again at the end but not enough to make it a classic.
But nevertheless, I've seen about 10 films at the cinema in the last 2 months & this was comfortably the best. That's more through the others all being crap (Signs, Greek Wedding, Guru, Changing Lanes, Austin Powers etc). It's better than all of them & well worth a watch.
7/10